"Land shall now be farmed by all, rice eaten by all, Clothes worn by
all, money spent by all. There shall not be inequality and no person shall be
without food or fuel. For under Heaven all belongs to the great family of the
Heavenly Father."

Hung Hsiu Ch’uan

(visionary prophet of Taiping uprising)

(see : Gods Chinese Son)

....(T)he weaver's fingers ache...../could you see her weaving,/you'd pity
her too!"

-Po Chu-i (AD 772-846)

"You see." I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world
was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.."

H.G. Wells

"Everybody knows now that Socialism is a proposal to divide-up the
income of the country in a new way. What you perhaps have not noticed is that
the income of the country is being divided up every day and even every minute at
present, and must continue to be divided up every day as long as there are two
people left to divide it."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Winston Churchill

"Socialism was not then either the popular or unpopular vogue it has
since become, but it was much more of a cult, with affiliation in directions now
quite disowned-with Theosophy, arts and crafts, vegetarianism, the ‘simple
life’ and almost, as one might say, the musical glasses."

Orage 1926

"That dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal wearers and bearded
fruit juice drinkers who come flocking toward the smell of 'progress' like
bluebottles to a dead cat."

George Orwell's definition of a socialist, quoted in the New Yorker

"In fact, the rich would be eager as the present class of the poor to
become socialists if they should find themselves suddenly dispossessed. Society
as it exists by the accumulation of wealth is not the result of needs that have
been overcome but of greed and a "Terrible impatience."

William Hubben

"Feed liberal ideas or planned-economy measures or even a passion for
social justice into one end of the gigantic automatic grinder that is the
democratic or Marxist nation-state, and the result will be the same: you’ll
get canned Totalitarianism at the other end."

Denis de Rougemont

The Last Trump

"Totalitarianism is much more than mere bureaucracy. It is the
subordination of every individual's whole life, work, and leisure, to the orders
of those in power and office. It is the reduction of man to a cog in an
all-embracing machine of compulsion and coercion. it forces the individual to
renounce any activity of which the government does not approve. it tolerates no
expression of dissent. It is the transformation of society into a strictly
disciplined labor-army (as the advocates of socialism say) or into a
penitentiary (as the opponents say). At any rate it is the radical break from
the way of life to which the civilized nations clung in the past....(Modern
socialism) is totalitarian in the strict sense of the term. It holds the
individual in tight rein from the womb to the tomb. At every instant of his life
the "comrade" is bound to obey implicitly the orders issued by the
supreme authority. The State is both his guardian and his employer. The State determines
his work, his diet, and his pleasures. The State tells him what to think and
what to believe in."

Ludwig von Mises

"The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted
to the rigor of mathematical calculation."

Marquis De Custine (1790-1857)

Empire of the Czar, Journey through Eternal Russia (1843)

"Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success.
They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel
worthless."

Kenneth Baker

"In socialist theology, this class is the
proletariat, the Chosen People of the Marxist faith. The proletariat, according
to Marx, is a class "which has a universal character by reason of the
universality of its sufferings, and which does not lay claim to any specific
rights because the injustice to which it is subjected is not particular but
general.....It cannot liberate itself without breaking free from all the other
classes of society and thereby liberating them also.....It stands for the total
ruin of man, and can recover itself only by his total redemption."

David Horowitz

The Politics of Bad Faith

"The socialist crusader interprets the conduct of others according to
his own idea of History.....Because he proclaims the universal truth of a single
view of History, he reserves the right to interpret the past as he
pleases."

-Raymond Aron

The Opium of the Intellectuals

"Industrial crisis, unemployment, waste, widespread poverty, these are
the incurable diseases of capitalism."

Joseph Stalin (Speech 1931)

"The basic economic law of contemporary capitalism could be formulated
as follows: Assurance of maximum capitalist profits....by means of enslavement,
and systematic plundering of the peoples of other countries, especially backward
countries."

Joseph Stalin

Book: "Koba the Dread: Laugher and the twenty million" by Martin
Amis

"Socialism can only arrive by bicycle." (100,000.000 bicycles made
per year)

Jose Antonio Vierra Gallo (ed note: as of 2004 China is now going full
blast for the automobile & is affecting the world market in bicycle's by
dumping their surplus bikes on the world market)

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Book: "The First Bolshevik" by Albert L. Weeks

Book: "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism" by Joshua
Maraochik

Book: "Whither Marxism? ed B. magnus & S. Cullenberg

Book: "The Opium of the Intellectuals" by Raymond Aron

Book: "One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the
Twentieth Century" by Donald Sassoon

Book: "The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde: Between Reform and
Revolution" by Janet Polasky

Book: "Harp Song For a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor
Debs" by Maugerite Young